[asking again] did a bad thing to my ports?

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:45 pm, Ben Munat wrote:
> Chris Hodgins wrote:
> > Ben Munat wrote:
> >> This morning, after running cvsup and portsdb, portversion told me
> >> I had a stale
> >> dependency in linux-sun-jdk. This didn't surprise me, as I had
> >> installed the jdk yesterday
> >> (and what a pain that was).
> >>
> >> So, I did as it suggested and ran pkgdb -F.... it asked me some
> >> questions... well, I'll
> >> just paste the output below. The question/problem is that now
> >> portversion says that I need
> >> to upgrade 85 ports! When I checked a few days ago, I had nothing
> >> to upgrade, so I have a
> >> feeling I messed something up. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > You could always play it safe, backup all the good stuff on your
> > system and just cvsup again.  Then install portmanager and start it
> > running and go to bed.  If it updates everything so be it.  At
> > least you will feel a little more confident about your system after
> > that.
> >
> > Chris
>
> Ok, well I ran portmanager -s and it comes up with 85 packages to
> upgrade too. I guess it was just coincidence that I went from 0 to 85
> in a couple days. I've started portmanager -u... we'll see how long
> it takes!
>
> thnx,
>
> Ben

Ben, they upgraded gnome and bumped many portrevisions to keep 
portupgrade happy I guess. Its too bad because likely many of these 
ports don't require upgrading.  All we can do is grin and bear it, 
hopefully it will be a long while before gnome is again upgraded.

-Mike